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Confetti Industry Week 2020: Stephen Graham, Jeanie Finlay and Julian Foddy
Mon 09 Mar 2020Confetti's Industry Week is now in its 14th year, giving students the chance to hear from experts in film and television. We checked out the highlights...
Return to Sender: How We Managed to Track Down the Author of a Postcard from 1908
Sat 07 Mar 2020Postcards were the “u ok hun?” texts of their day. Used by past generations to check in on their distant siblings, and by more recent ones to boast about exotic holidays to their friends, they’ve never really been blessed with messages worth a third or forth glance. Which is why our Assistant Editor, Emily, was shocked to discover cards dating back to 1908 sitting on the shelf of Hopkinson Vintage, Antiques and Art Centre. She decided to track down the families of their senders, to ask them why…
20 Great Battle Scenes from Film History
Fri 17 Jan 2020From the walls of Jerusalem to the beaches of Normandy, to the Mongolian plains and the waves of the Atlantic. Whether its spears and shields or bullets and bayonets, these are twenty of the greatest battle scenes in film history...
Snap Notts: Hopkinson's Art Centre
Sat 11 Jan 2020Every month we pair up a local poet and photographer and give them a location in Nottingham to create work around. This month, it's everyone's favourite surprise-packed antique shop...
6 of the Most Hipster Coffees in Notts
Fri 15 Nov 2019Life is rarely ever boring. So why should your coffee be?
Gandeys Circus is Bringing Their Greatest Show Tour to Woodthorpe Park This Week
Tue 17 Sept 2019The UK’s largest circus, Gandeys, will be lighting up Woodthorpe Grange Park with a string of performances in the coming days...
Genre-Hopping Aussies King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard to Descend on Rock City
Mon 22 Jul 2019It takes quite some energy to keep up with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. The prodigious genre-hopping Aussies – five albums released in 2017 alone – lead their fans on a merry dance through a range of musical styles from something approaching jazz to something approaching thrash metal. And more in between...
Review: Jeanie Barton at Peggy's Skylight
Fri 19 Jul 2019Adrian Shaw headed down to Peggy's Skylight to check out the musical talents of Jeanie Barton...
City Stylin' #15: "I frighten people for a living, which is great"
Wed 03 Jul 2019Tony Ghostwalker tells us about the ghoulish history of the city... and his beard.
Award-Winning Documentary Maker Jeanie Finlay on Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth
Fri 21 Jun 2019We might only be in June, but 2019 has been a very busy year for Jeanie Finlay. The Broadway-based filmmaker has followed up the success of her 2015 film Orion: The Man Who Would be King with not one, but two enormous, yet wildly different films. We caught up with the award-winning documentary maker to talk about both projects, starting with Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth, a film that follows Freddy McConnell, a transgender man, on his path to parenthood after making the decision to carry his child himself…
Louis Cypher on Notts Hip Hop, Mental Health, and His Second Solo EP
Thu 06 Jun 2019Nottingham hip hop staple Louis Cypher is set to launch his second solo EP, Cypher Sore Eyes, at The Maze this Friday. We sat down with the rapper in the Fox & Grapes to get a potted history of his music career, and to find out more on the new release…
Nottingham-Based Award-Winning Film Maker Jeanie Finlay on Her Official Game of Thrones Documentary The Last Watch
Thu 06 Jun 2019We talk to the Notts-based documentary maker, about Game of Thrones: The Last Watch, the film she crafted after spending a year embedded during filming of the final series of the HBO hit series…
Deadwood: The 15 Greatest Moments Ranked
Sat 01 Jun 2019After a thirteen year wait, HBO is finally taking us back to Deadwood, the lawless 1870s South Dakota setting of their series that ran from 2004-06. Having cancelled the show after the third series cliffhanger, relentless campaigning from both the fans and members of the cast finally bore fruit, resulting in a feature-length film set ten years after the events of the original series, which airs on Sky Atlantic on Saturday 1 June at 9pm...
Cinema Gold: Hopeful and Hallucinatory New Sounds
Fri 31 May 2019Cinema Gold have been intriguing audiences with their psychedelic lo-fi sounds since forming earlier this year. Our Lily sat down with them for a chat about making music, their ambitions for the band, and what might happen in Room 101...
History of the Weird Midlands Episode Five: The Great Nottingham Curio Show!
Thu 04 Apr 2019Roll up, roll up! In the season two premiere, the gang take a look at the remarkable and infamous curiosity show, including exploitative entertainers of Goose Fair, the perennial jokester William Wallet, and the world-famous Joseph Merrick, A.K.A. the Elephant Man! Warning: Contains strong language and some serious spookiness.
Emmanuel House: Spread The Love This Winter
Wed 21 Nov 2018As we dig out our big coats and SAD lamps in preparation for these cold winter days, Emmanuel House is preparing for its busiest, and most integral time of year. The charity provides some of our most vulnerable people in Nottingham with the basic necessities, which at this time of year is as basic as a warm room and a cup of tea. They have just launched their 'Think Christmas - Give Hope' campaign, in which they are trying to raise enough money to keep the centre going for another year. So, have a gander at these snaps from the launch event at Peggy's Skylight, get in touch if you feel inclined to help...
‘Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience’ Interview with Paul Sng
Mon 22 Oct 2018‘Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience’ gives a narrative to those forgotten by the media and government in modern Britain.
The book features the work of several accomplished documentary photographers, to show the untold stories of those affected by issues such as Brexit, austerity, de-industrialisation and social upheaval.
The Broadway are hosting a screening of the Invisible Britain: Sleaford Mods film with a panel Q&A to discuss the book with director/editor Paul Sng, Carl Phillips and photographers David Severn and Laura Dicken.
We sat down with Paul Sng, to talk about the book...
6 Great Tapas Restaurants in Nottingham
Thu 11 Oct 2018Do you ever fancy a meal out but just can’t justify the lengthy restaurant experience? Or perhaps you have a real hankering for an evening filled with plate after tiny plate of spanish dreams? Well you’re in for a treat, as we’ve compiled a list of all the best Tapas joints in Notts...
1st Blood Release Creativity Crisis After a Five-Year Album Hiatus
Tue 25 Sept 2018Pete Chilvers is the man behind Nottingham hip hop camp 1st Blood. His day-ones include Ty Healy, Louis Cypher, Liam Bailey and Cappo, to name just a few, and in his younger years he was under the wing of Bristolian monolith Tricky as a label signee. After a five-year release hiatus, 1st Blood have stuck a new album into the airwaves, so we thought we’d catch up with the man on the buttons...
Live Music Review: Tee Peters at Rough Trade Nottingham
Mon 18 Jun 2018We got down to Rough Trade Nottingham to check out Tee Peter’s new EP launch…
Eleven Greatest Football Films
Thu 14 Jun 2018As the 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia, we've picked out a starting eleven of cracking football films to get you in the mood for England's inevitable early exit...
Doing the Bookshop Hop at Nottingham Poetry Festival
Fri 27 Apr 2018A dazzling evening of new connections and resonant readings at two of Nottingham’s thriving bookshops, Blackwell’s and Five Leaves…
VVV: Leading the Hip Hop Revolution
Thu 12 Apr 2018VVV are Nottingham’s most exciting new hip hop export. Having said that, music aficionados could contest that they aren’t really new, as the underground supergroup is made up of three names who’ve been on the Notts scene for years. The trio have proven themselves to be a unique contribution to the UK’s rap scene, delivering skilled bars and cultural nostalgia without taking themselves too seriously. Cappo, a UK rap veteran whose career spans over two decades, is joined by Juga-Naut, the culinary and musical polymath, and Vandal Savage, the lyrically adept nephew of Nottingham hip hop legend, Joe Buhdha...
Cappo on the Importance of Lyricism in Hip Hop
Sat 20 Jan 2018The Notts veteran explains what wordsmithery means to the art form
Film Review: The Greatest Showman
Tue 16 Jan 2018Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron and Michelle Williams team up for the all signing, all dancing biopic of circus pioneer P.T. Barnum